Anyone likes The Age of Innocence (sp)?
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Anyone likes The Age of Innocence (sp)?
P&P & Much Ado... are also 2 of my favs. I'd add Chekhov's "Lady with the Dog."
Susie
My favourite would have to be Will and Lyra from His Dark Materials. Now THAT'S love!
What about the suckiest romance? I reckon Harry and Ginny from HP and the Half Blood Prince was pretty bad, but that's just my opinion...
i couldn't agree more :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MrsCoulter
if Ginny was in love with Harry all along, why did she have this whole assembly of boyfriends? can't she be stand being single for 2 days in a row?.... it is and accurate portrayal of English (and other) kids' behaviour, I'm afraid, but that's not necessarily something I want to read about in a novel....
hm... i don't know many love novels... out of those I know, my faves are The remains of the day and Love in the Time of Cholera.. plus Unwiederbringlich by Theodor Fontane
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Originally Posted by subterranean
I do, I think Edith Wharton did a great job in portraying the love triangle in the middle of New York's 19th cent. society. I did a paper on May and on the social and moral code existing in the middle class society of that day and what different things implied.
I agree!Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
Not to mention the poor buildup and the lack of emotion other than lust. This is meant to the be Hero's story - so why is the romance so cheap? Why doesn't Harry trust Ginny enough to tell her about the Prophecy? Why don't they ever talk about how they're feeling...I mean, we don't even see Harry or Ginny caring for the other!
Also, I hate how they bring out the worst in each other. And just curious, what pairing were you hoping for?
hehe, Ginny would have been alright with me if it hadn't turned out the way it did... i mean, if it wasn't that cheap and everything it would have been fine... actually, i didn't take much interest in the 'pairing' issue before.... maybe he could have talked to Cho and they could have been a couple... that would have showed some maturity.....Quote:
Originally Posted by MrsCoulter
I preferred Ginny with Neville, because in OotP it appeared that she had gotten over Harry. And she came out stronger because of it, and I thought, wow, this is someone that girls could really look up to, y'know? But then we find out in HBP that her "being stronger" was just an act to get Harry, and I just thought..."where's the dignity and moral in that?".Quote:
Originally Posted by SleepyWitch
I wanted Harry with Hermione, because I thought that if there was one person who's been there for Harry, time and time again, it would be Hermione. And also, there are some really lovely passages from the books that just SCREAMS Harry/Hermione to me :) And if it weren't Harry/Hermione, my second choice would've been Harry/Luna. There are some really neat Harry/Hermione essays out there that I could link to - I know that JKR has said no to the pairing, but I just can't help but feel that it still has a chance :)
You would think that Hermione and Harry would end up together, because there were some interesting parts in the book that looked that way. I like Ginny, but not with Harry. She seems too childish for him in a way. Where do you see the Harry/Luna thing going on? I wouldn't have thought of pairing them together.
My favorite love story is Mary Webb's "Precious Bane." I don't know of too many people who have read it though. Anna Karenina, Wuthering Heights, and Age of Innocence are actually on my shelves right now...
I don't mind Ginny either, just not with Harry.Quote:
Originally Posted by grace86
Harry/Luna? There isn't much canon evidence from OotP, but what there was far more than Harry/Ginny had in OotP. When Harry was under the mistletoe with Cho, the first thing he said was something that Luna had told him (about the nargles). At the end OotP, Luna indirectly is the only person who can comfort Harry. Remember how after they talked, and she was walking away, Harry felt his sorrow lessen slightly? Something like that...I'll get the canon quotes later. :)
I prefer Harry/Hermione, though.
i'm afraid that i must be antagonistic and reveal that i don't care much for the harry potter characters. i enjoy the books enough, but certainly not for the characters, whom i find to be shallow with the exception of perhaps snape. best romance is undoubtedly the one between Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights. i read that book until it fell apart at the seams. :)
Persuasion by Jane Austen, I think. I just love that book...
'Le Roi s'amuse' by Victor Hugo,
'Master and Margarita' by Mikhail Bulgakov,
'The Thorn Birds' by Colleen McCullough,
and 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.
S.
PS. Am new here, still getting used to the site so excuse the brevity of my first message.
Hermione and Harry are just friends. It really works better that way. :)
Ginny and Harry are fine with me but I would have prefferred any other new girl.
I can't bear Harry's romance with Hermione and Luna because Hermione is suitable with Ron and Luna with Neville. Cho was not very bad too.
To me, the story would have been better without any girl friends and boy friends because it started as a children book but JK Rowling can't do anything because Harry and trio are growing.